God has a plan for every life. This plan is in God’s mind before the person is born. The divine Creator never brings a human soul into being and starts it on its immortal destiny without knowing precisely what place he means it to fill in this world, what work he means it to do, what he means it to become. The plan is not the same for any two lives; there is a special purpose for each one. We reach our highest success in life and do the noblest work possible for us to do when we discover what God’s thought is for us, and try our best to work it out.
It certainly must be possible, too, for us to learn what God’s plan is for our own life. God would never be so unreasonable as to require and expect certain things of us and not be willing and ready to tell us what they are. He would not have a pattern for us to follow and then hide it out of sight so that we cannot see it. He will show us the pattern if we look for it at the right place and if we are really ready to accept it and make it our own.
It will be a pity if any of us disregard God’s thought and purpose for our life, and ignore it, and make one of our own instead — a poor, imperfect, short-sighted, faulty plan instead of God’s noble, wise, perfect, and beautiful plan. It would be as if the mere builder of the cathedral should throw aside the great wise architect’s plan and take his own poor ignorant idea instead. It would be a pity if a divine plan for our life lying close beside us, within our reach, so that we can see it and follow it, we should yet fail to see it, and, wondering what God wants us to do, what his purpose is for us, and wishing we might know, should go stumbling on in darkness, only guessing at the way and at our duty.
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